Han

Popularity: This name is unique in the US. Ranking #6360 in 2013 and #4719 in 2014.

Meaning

In English

Meaning(s):

-An ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum

-An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development

-The Chinese ethnicity, when distinguished from other peoples of the Chinese state

-The realm of this former state under other rulers

-(astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state